PO Box 374 / Marlboro, Vermont 05344
E–mail: ch@emerson.edu (as of July 2024 ch@marlboro.edu no longer works)

Education

1986/79 University of Chicago, Ph.D./M.A., Anthropology (with focus on the anthropology of art & material culture)
1971 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (printmaking award)
1971 Bates College, B.S., Mathematics (plus the equivalent of a visual arts minor)

Employment

2015 - Professor Emerita, Marlboro College
1989-2015 Professor (unranked titles), Anthropology, Marlboro College

Publications (See separate webpage)

Select Work in Visual Arts

2021 Group exhibit: "Exploring the Handmade Book." (seven pieces). Marlboro Community Center, VT (September-October)
2021 Group exhibit: "The Art of the Book: Is It a Book?" (two pieces) Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild, St. Johnsbury, VT. (August-September)
2021 Installation: KUMU Project (one piece—part of sharing artwork as a representation of community). East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. (Summer)
2020 Two-person exhibit: "Bricolage." Crowell Gallery, Newfane, VT. (January)
2020 Residency: Vermont Studio Center residency (July)
2019 Residency: AIRIE (Artist in Residence in Everglades) fellow. Everglades National Park (May) plus one work donated to the National Park Service.
2019 Installation: "Che’s Socks." Artist's book as part of a juried installation at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association/Canadian
Anthropological Society, Vancouver, Canada. (November)
2018 Illustrations for "Shihkalpalkasema Sihknerasema/Natchez Ghosts." Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana.
2016 Solo exhibit: "Lines of Insight." Curated show of visual field journal & artist's books plus Guatemalan textiles from my collection. Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, VT. (September-October)
2016 Group exhibit: "Drawing the Anthropological Imagination." One piece. Meetings of Association of Social Anthropologists, Durham, UK. (July)
2015 Group exhibit: "Hanging Out." (3 pieces) in Afterimage Gallery, Riverside, CA. (February-March)
2010-11 Three-person exhibit: “Paper Trails: Visual Journals,” artists' books and journals, Brattleboro (VT) Museum and Art Center. (November-January)
http://www.brattleboromuseum.org/2010/10/07/paper-trails-visual-journaling/
2010 Book presentation: “Something between Bellowing & Whistling: Zinacantec Animals Speak Wor(l)ds in Honor of Robert M. Laughlin.” Artist's book
presented at the meetings of the American Anthropological Association. (November)
2010 Book images: “China Journey,” two images of my artist's books featured in Impulse Journal: East-West Center’s 50th Anniversary Edition. Honolulu.
2008 Artwork included in 1000 Artist Journal Pages, Dawn DeVries Sokol, ed. Beverly, MA: Quarry Press.

Select Presentations

2020 "Visual Field Research Practices." University of Albany (zoom lecture).
2019 "Mark-Making, Drawing and Painting Fieldnotes." Juried workshop co-presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, Vancouver.
2019 "Why Draw? / Drawing in the Production of Anthropological Knowledge." La antropología en sus límites. UADY/Mérida, Mexico.
2019 "Drawn In: Affective Dimensions of Drawing and 'Storying Otherwise.'" Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR.
2018 "Words and Images: In Search of Creative Possibilities in Ethnography." CASCA-Cuba meetings, Santiago de Cuba.
2017 "Drawing as Ethnographic Practice from Fieldwork to Public Presentation." American Anthropological Association meetings, Washington, D.C.
2016 “Word, Image, Object: The Anthro-Artist's Book.” Society for Applied Anthropology meetings, Vancouver, BC.
2015 “Clothes-Lines: Art, Anthropology, and Everyday Life.” University of California-Riverside.
2014 “Drawing and Painting in the Production of Anthropological Knowledge.” AAA meetings, Washington, D.C. Co-organizer of panel: Drawing and Painting in the Production of Anthropological Knowledge.
2014 “Visual Fieldnotes and the Anthro-Artist’s Book: Part II.” Society for Visual Anthropology meetings, Washington, D.C.
2013 “Che’s Socks: Telling History through Clothing in Havana’s Museum of the Revolution.” American Anthropological Association meetings, Chicago.
2013 “Experiments in Visual Anthropology.” Society for Visual Anthropology meetings, Chicago.
2012 “Handcrafted Essays: The Anthro-Artist’s Book.” American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco.
2011 "Historical Threads: The Past in Present-day Maya Textile Fashions.” Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe.
2011 “Paper Trails: Visual Journaling.” Friends of the NEC Library, New England College, Henniker, NH.
2009 “Experiments in Visual Anthropology.” Meetings of the AAA, Philadelphia.
2007 “The Visual Voice of Maya Women.” Virginia Commonwealth University.
2008 Artwork included in 1000 Artist Journal Pages, Dawn DeVries Sokol, ed. Beverly, MA: Quarry Press.

Select Grants & Honors

• Baber Grant for Support of Arts on Campus (Marlboro College, 2013 & 2014)
• Aron Grant for Collaborative Student/Faculty Research (Marlboro College) in La Paz, Bolivia on the senses (2011) and artists' books workshop (2012).
• invited faculty lecturer for NEH Summer Institute: art traditions in Highland Guatemala (given in Guatemala 2006, 2002, 2000).
• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant (1999) for 6 months of research on changes in the visual arts in Tecpán Guatemala (a highland Maya town).
• Director, U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to Marlboro College for "Internationalizing Environmental Studies at Marlboro College" (1998–2001).
• Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1996 (one of twelve in anthropology): Weaving Identities (by the Association of College and Research Libraries).